An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming down its appearance, according to ...

Carefully placed inside an ancient Egyptian coffin sat a rolled-up papyrus. While pharaohs came and went, empires rose and fell, the Nile flooded and receded, the papyrus remained unchanged and ...

An ancient Egyptian papyrus held by the British Museum has been cited as possible evidence supporting some of the Bible's most controversial claims about giants. The 3,300-year-old document, known as ...

Ancient Egyptians have been found to have used a 3,000 year-old "Tipp-Ex" like correction fluid to fix artistic errors on papyrus documents and artworks, new research has suggested. Researchers at ...

How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum. A detail of the gilded Book of the Dead of Ankhmerwer, a funerary ...